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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. openGemini vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpatiaLite

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.)An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
www.sadasengine.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.opengemini.org/­guidewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMicrosoftHuawei and openGemini communityOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release19922022201520062008
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.1, July 20233.0.0, September 20228.05.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageyes, limitedyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoErlangnono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Administrators and common users accountsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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