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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

A 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.

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.)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.61
Rank	#219	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	52.27
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	143.44
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#162	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/rdb/overview/index.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Alibaba

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1983

1992

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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

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