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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1992201820142011
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201911.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Prolog, RustC++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 standardSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneJournaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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