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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. OpenTenBase vs. QuestDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.)An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
questdb.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
questdb.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenAtom Foundation, previously TencentQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release199220142009
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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