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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Tarantool vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.)Open Source Time Series DBMSIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score107.93
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#352  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#146  Overall
#24  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssiridb.comwww.tarantool.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.siridb.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftCesbitVKDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1992201720082018
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.10.0, May 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoNumeric datastring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIOpen binary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes, write ahead loggingyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003simple rights management via user accountsAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Role-based access control

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