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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Rockset vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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.)A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrockset.comsplicemachine.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.rockset.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperMicrosoftRocksetSplice MachineDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release1992201920142000
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.1, March 20213.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.no infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoJavano
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
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 2003Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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