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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

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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.)

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

1992

1984

2014

2023

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP Open VMS

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
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

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, on a single node

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

Access Control Lists

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