DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. MongoDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access vs. MongoDB 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.)

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document 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

www.mongodb.com

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

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

MongoDB, Inc

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1992

2009

2015

Current release

11.2, May 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

6.0.7, June 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

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

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Ingres Replicator

none

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

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

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

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 for users and roles

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

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