DBMS > Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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.)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

maxdb.sap.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Cambridge Semantics

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2018

1984

1992

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.3, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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