DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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.)

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

kairosdb.github.io

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2010

2013

1992

1994

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

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

yes

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)

simple password-based access control

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

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