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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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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.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

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

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

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1992

1984

2013

2001

2009

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP Open VMS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

yes, on a single node

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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