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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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.)Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aisiridb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbCesbitAlex Kashirin
Initial release19922014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200920172020
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201910 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++CC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infoNumeric data
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIHTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple rights management via user accounts

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