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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SurrealDB vs. TDengine

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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.)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssurrealdb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperMicrosoftSurrealDB LtdTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release199220222019
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019v1.5.0, May 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustC
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, based on authentication and database rulesyes
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Microsoft AccessSurrealDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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