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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Microsoft Access vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

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.)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.09
Rank	#103	Overall
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#3	RDF stores

Score	146.50
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

1992

2011

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin 3.3

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

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

Relationships in graphs

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

with encyption-at-rest

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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

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Recent citations in the news

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