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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Transbase vs. Trino vs. Weaviate

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  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 resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmltrino.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperMicrosoftTransaction Software GmbHTrino Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release199219872012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2019
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes 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 standardyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes, depending on connected data-sourceno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on connected data-sourceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationdepending on connected data-sourceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-sourceEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingyesdepending on connected data-sourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
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 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Microsoft AccessTransbaseTrinoWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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