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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. STSdb vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.)Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperMicrosoftSTS Soft SCWakanda SAS
Initial release1992201120092012
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0.8, September 20152.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#JavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client APITinkerPop 3RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nonoyes

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