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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Vertica vs. WakandaDB

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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.)

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	90.82
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	9.53
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#366	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.vertica.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

vertica.com/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1992

2005

2012

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

12.0.3, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

yes

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