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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Prometheus vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl vs. XTDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been 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.)Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessprometheus.iorealm.iosqrrl.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessprometheus.io/­docsrealm.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release19922015201420122019
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaClojure
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.no infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoopnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby Federationnoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noyesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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