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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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.)

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	2.06
Rank	#140	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	131.03
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	5.14
Rank	#80	Overall
	#12	Key-value stores

Website

www.jbase.com

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

riak.com/products/riak-kv

Technical documentation

docs.zumasys.com/jbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Zumasys

Microsoft

Basho Technologies

Initial release

1991

1992

2009

Current release

5.7

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.1.0, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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