DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vertica

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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.)

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
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Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

clickhouse.com

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

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2016

1992

2009

2005

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

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

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

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

Groovy
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

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

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

optional

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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