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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. XTDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score95.91
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#314  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release19922019
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC++Clojure
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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