DBMS > Datomic vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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.)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

1992

2013

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

17, July 2015

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Data scheme

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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