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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.)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.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen Source Time Series DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsiridb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.siridb.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftTobias OetikerSybase, SAPCesbitDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19921999199320172018
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.8.0, 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsHP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.no infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
in-process shared library
Pipes
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
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
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesnoyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access control

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