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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. SurrealDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.)A managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score91.31
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.09
Rank#84  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#208  Overall
#7  RDF stores
Score0.39
Rank#267  Overall
#42  Document stores
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.01
Rank#181  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.pinecone.iordf4j.orgwww.sequoiadb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sequoiadb Ltd.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19922019200420132022
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
PythonJava
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesJavaScript
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nosimple password-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rules

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