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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Prometheus vs. Sequoiadb vs. SurrealDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.)Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessprometheus.iowww.sequoiadb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessprometheus.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftSequoiadb Ltd.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1992201520132022
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++GoC++Rust
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoJavaScript
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nosimple password-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rules

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