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

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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 databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen Source Time Series DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquasar.aiwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssiridb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbinformationpartners gmbhCesbitAlex Kashirin
Initial release19922009201520172020
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 20241.00.5, 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 licensescommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++CC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes infoNumeric data
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
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 APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP 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++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicessimple rights management via user accounts

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