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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. RDFox

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release199220172017
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0 (May 2024)6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesRoles, resources, and access types
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Microsoft AccessObjectBoxRDFox
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