DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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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.)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
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Score	121.33
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	#6	Relational DBMS

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	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

1992

2006

2017

2014

2020

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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

yes

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