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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpatiaLite

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.)Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessplanetscale.comwww.sadasengine.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessplanetscale.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMicrosoftPlanetScaleOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release19922020201520062008
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.0.0, September 20228.05.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++GoErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes, limitedyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoproprietary syntaxErlangnono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between datasets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID at shard levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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