DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HBase vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HBase vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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 embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

hbase.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

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

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Google

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2008

2011

1992

2000

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.23, February 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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 or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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

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