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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspouchdb.comsiridb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.siridb.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationCesbitSplice Machine
Initial release1992201220172014
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.1.1, June 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoNumeric datayes
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoJava
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nosimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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