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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Splunk vs. SQLite vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.)Analytics Platform for Big DataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.splunk.comwww.sqlite.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperMicrosoftSplunk Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release1992200320002009
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and rolesnono

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