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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.)Open Source Time Series DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssiridb.comtrafodion.apache.orgvictoriametrics.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.siridb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftCesbitApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVictoriaMetricsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19922017201420182019
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.3.0, February 2019v1.91, May 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC++, JavaGoGo
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoNumeric datayesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, via HBaseSynchronous replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBasenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACIDnono
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Microsoft AccessSiriDBTrafodionVictoriaMetricsWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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