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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Access

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Name	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparison	Amazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Description	MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing	Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore	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.)
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.59 Rank #222   Overall #106   Relational DBMS	Score 2.09 Rank #123   Overall #24   Key-value stores	Score 145.09 Rank #9   Overall #6   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcompute	aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­product/­27797.htm	docs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	developer.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Developer	Alibaba	Amazon	Microsoft
Initial release	2016	2007	1992
Current release			1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial Bundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no
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Implementation language			C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Windows Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	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.	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes All columns are indexed automatically	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	no	yes but not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methods	Fluentd Flume MaxCompute Console	RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET DAO ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	.Net C C++ Erlang Java PHP Python Ruby Scala	C C# C++ Delphi Java (JDBC-ODBC) VBA Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions in Java	no	yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggers	no	no	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	none Sharding must be implemented in the application	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency can be specified for read operations
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application	ACID but no files for transaction logging
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes but no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles	Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)	no a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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