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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SingleStore vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.)MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.singlestore.comsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.singlestore.comsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperMicrosoftSingleStore Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release1992201320012014
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20198.5, January 20243.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux info64 bit version requiredFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes infoJava
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infohash partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
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 2003Fine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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