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DBMS > Graphite vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe 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 ServerScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperChris DavisMicrosoftMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2006199220162018
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineTransact SQLyes
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesRole-based access control

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