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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Valentina Server vs. Vitess

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Name

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.)

Object-relational database and reports server

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.valentina-db.net

vitess.io

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Paradigma Software

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1992

1999

2013

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

5.7.5

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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