DBMS > Fauna vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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.)

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
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	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

manticoresearch.com

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

1992

2005

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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

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