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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

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Score	133.72
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	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

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

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

1992

2017

2014

2000

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

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

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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