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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryMicrosoft 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 DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.lmdb.tech/­docdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAlibabaClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleSymasMicrosoft
Initial release1983201720111992
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infovia pluginsnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
PHPGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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