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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. Transbase vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. Transbase vs. Yaacomo

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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.)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspouchdb.comrealm.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Transaction Software GmbHQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19922012201419872009
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.1.1, June 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes infoChange Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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