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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. RethinkDB vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. RethinkDB vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB vs. Typesense

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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.Open Source Time Series DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrethinkdb.comsiridb.comswaydb.simer.autypesense.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.siridb.comtypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017CesbitSimer Plaha
Initial release19922009201720182015
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CScalaC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoNumeric datanoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnononono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP 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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousers and table-level permissionssimple rights management via user accountsno

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