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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. Tarantool vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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.)Spatial extension of PostgreSQLIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspostgis.netwww.tarantool.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspostgis.net/­documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperMicrosoftVKTranswarp
Initial release199220052008
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.2, February 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Open binary protocolOpenCypher
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
yes

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