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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Newts vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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.)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

opennms.github.io/newts

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1992

2014

1984

2014

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

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

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

Users and groups

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

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