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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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.)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Website

memgraph.com

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

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

1992

2017

2014

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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