DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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.)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
RDF store

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
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Score	104.92
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Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

memgraph.com

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

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

memgraph.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2013

2017

1992

2018

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

Journaling Streams

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

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

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

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

Role-based access control

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