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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.)DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrethinkdb.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Tobias OetikerApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19922009199920141987
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.4.1, August 20201.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basednoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingAtomic single-document operationsnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousers and table-level permissionsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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