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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. Databricks vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. Databricks vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMicrosoft 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 DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.72
Rank#217  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score86.46
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score91.31
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlbigobject.iowww.databricks.comgeospock.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.bigobject.iodocs.databricks.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupBigObject, Inc.DatabricksGeoSpockMicrosoft
Initial release2016201520131992
Current release2.0, September 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedhostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementswith Databricks SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBBigObjectDatabricksGeoSpockMicrosoft Access
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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