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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Tigris

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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.)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrocksdb.orgwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesFacebook, Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release1992200920132022
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.0, December 20228.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
C++ API
Java API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlangnono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights for users and roles

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