ALTIBASE vs Microsoft Access

ALTIBASE is a relational database engine that combines in-memory and on-disk storage. It can run entirely in memory, entirely on disk, or in a hybrid mode, with features for both OLTP and OLAP workloads. Built-in replication supports synchronous or asynchronous consistency and Active-Active or Active-Standby architectures. Listed interfaces include ODBC, JDBC, .NET and Entity Framework, OLEDB, Embedded SQL, CLI, Perl DBD, and PHP. ALTIBASE V7.3 lists migration support for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Tibero, and CUBRID, along with DBeaver compatibility through plugins. Its listed utilities cover querying, replication management, profiling, monitoring, migration, exporting, and loading data. Security capabilities include SSL/TLS communication, SQL auditing, password policies, IP access control, object privileges, and methods to integrate third-party encryption. The Linux, self-hosted product offers a free A+ Edition for development, testing, and education; it is not for commercial use and is limited to 128 concurrent users, 10 GB in-memory, and 50 GB disk database. Enterprise subscription pricing is available on request.

Microsoft Access has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.