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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SpaceTime vs. Tkrzw vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.)

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

dbmx.net/tkrzw

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Microsoft

Mireo

Mikio Hirabayashi

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1992

2020

2014

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

0.9.3, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

ACID

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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