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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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.)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

1992

Current release

2.1, December 2018

19.4.1, November 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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

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