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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Sadas Engine vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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.)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Transwarp

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1992

2006

2018

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.0

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

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.

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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DB-Engines blog posts

MS Access drops in DB-Engines Ranking
2 May 2013, Paul Andlinger

Microsoft SQL Server regained rank 2 in the DB-Engines popularity ranking
3 December 2012, Matthias Gelbmann

New DB-Engines Ranking shows the popularity of database management systems
3 October 2012, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

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