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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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.)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

galaxybase.com

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

2015

2017

1992

2010

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Java

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined procedures and functions

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

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

Role-based access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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