DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

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.)

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1992

2014

2015

Current release

11.2, May 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Ingres Replicator

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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