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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV vs. SingleStore vs. SiriDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV vs. SingleStore vs. SiriDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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 storeMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpen Source Time Series DBMSYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.singlestore.comsiridb.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.singlestore.comdocs.siridb.comytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSingleStore Inc.CesbitYandex
Initial release19922009201320172023
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.0, December 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++, GoCC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinuxUbuntu
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysnoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
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
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlangyesno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infohash partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
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 datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, using Riak SecurityFine grained access control via users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountsAccess Control Lists
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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