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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. YottaDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrdf4j.orgwww.scylladb.comwww.sequoiadb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.scylladb.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.ScyllaDBSequoiadb Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release19922004201520132001
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++C
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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 indexesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query languageby using the Octo plugin
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
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
proprietary protocol using JSONPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
PHP
Python
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes, LuaJavaScript
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
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 usedno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsDocument is locked during a transactionoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoin-memory tablesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noAccess rights for users can be defined per objectsimple password-based access controlUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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