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

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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.)Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquasar.aisiridb.comwww.speedb.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbCesbitSpeedbAlex Kashirin
Initial release19922009201720202020
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infoNumeric datano
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 infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIHTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenononono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple rights management via user accountsno
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft AccessQuasardbSiriDBSpeedbSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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