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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. Netezza vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. Netezza vs. TerminusDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLMicrosoft 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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.monetdb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.MicrosoftMonetDB BVIBMDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20161992200420002018
Current release2.1, December 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, in SQL, C, Ryesyes
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneSharding via remote tablesShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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