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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
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
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSybase, SAPWeaviate B.V.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release19922009199320192019
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.0, December 20221.19, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangGoClojure
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyesGraphQL is used as query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
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
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlangyesnono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesnono
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 datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
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More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft AccessRiak KVSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSWeaviateXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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