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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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.)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	127.49
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2

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

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Google

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

1983

host version

1992

Current release

12.1, October 2016

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

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

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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