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

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Name

Description

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The 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 Huawei

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

ReductStore LLC

Mireo

Initial release

1992

2019

2023

2020

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.0, March 2022

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

ANSI SQL 2011

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Java

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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