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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Hazelcast vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Hazelcast vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application serverMicrosoft 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 storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlhazelcast.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAlibabaHazelcastEmbarcaderoInterSystemsMicrosoft
Initial release2008198419971992
Current release5.3.6, November 2023InterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoReplicated MapInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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