DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

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.)

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	104.92
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	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
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	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

janusgraph.org

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.janusgraph.org

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Google

Embarcadero

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

1984

2017

1992

2016

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.6.3, February 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Clojure
Java
Python

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

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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

yes

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