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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Sadas Engine vs. Solr vs. ToroDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Sadas Engine vs. Solr vs. ToroDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.)SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sadasengine.comsolr.apache.orggithub.com/­torodb/­servervictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperMicrosoftSADAS s.r.l.Apache Software Foundation8KdataVictoriaMetrics
Initial release19922006200620162018
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20198.09.6.0, April 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)All OS with a Java 7 VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoJava pluginsno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic lockingnono
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.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and roles

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