DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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.)

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Social network pages

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1999

2012

2017

1992

1993

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

with some exceptions

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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