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Name

Description

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. info

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS info

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	116.54
Rank	#11	Overall
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Score	1.76
Rank	#127	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

products.office.com/en-us/access

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff604965.aspx

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1992

2010

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.0, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source info

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X info

for development

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Erlang info

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Snapshots and command logging

User concepts info

Access control

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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