DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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.)

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.kinetica.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.kinetica.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Kinetica

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

1992

2015

2013

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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