DBMS > GBase vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.snowflake.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2004

1984

1992

2014

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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