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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonBaseX GmbHMicrosoft
Initial release2007200720161992
Current release10.7, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infoXQuery supports typesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesnoyes infovia eventsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationmultiple readers, single writerACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAmazon SimpleDBBaseXBigchainDBMicrosoft Access
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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