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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave vs. Sequoiadb vs. SingleStore

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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.)RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrdf4j.orgwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sequoiadb.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.RisingWave LabsSequoiadb Ltd.SingleStore Inc.
Initial release19922004202220132013
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.2, September 20238.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaRustC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyesSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSONCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesUDFs in Python or JavaJavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noUsers and Rolessimple password-based access controlFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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