DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Realm

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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.)

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

clickhouse.com

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

raima.com

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

clickhouse.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.raima.com

realm.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Raima Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2016

1992

1984

2014

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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

yes

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