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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
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	#13	RDF stores

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

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

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Google

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2010

2014

1992

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

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

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

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

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

none

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 in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

Access rights for users and roles

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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