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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplumdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Microsoft 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.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlhive.apache.orgignite.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software FoundationMicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release20162012201519922015
Current release3.1.3, April 2022Apache Ignite 2.61902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)noneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authentication

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