DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

InterSystems

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2018

1992

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

depending on used data model

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

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

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

yes

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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