DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. TypeDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. TypeDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Relational DBMS

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

typedb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

typedb.com/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Vaticle

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1992

2013

2015

2016

1999

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

2.26.3, January 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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