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DBMS > Databend vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.snowflake.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperDatabend LabsMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release2021199220142014
Current release1.0.59, April 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageRustC++Java
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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