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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. RavenDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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.)An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
ravendb.netwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
ravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftHuawei and openGauss communityHibernating RhinosMireo
Initial release1992201920102020
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.0, March 20225.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, JavaC#C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardANSI SQL 2011SQL-like query language (RQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Java
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyesno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)ShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes

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