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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiriDB vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Widely used in-process key-value store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

siridb.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.siridb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Cesbit

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1992

1994

2017

2000

2019

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

18.1.40, May 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

simple rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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