DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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.)

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
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	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.ehcache.org

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

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.datastax.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

DataStax

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2011

2009

1992

1995

Current release

6.8, April 2020

3.10.0, March 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

JCache

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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