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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Derby vs. Microsoft Access vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Derby vs. Microsoft Access vs. Vitess

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.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.)Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputebigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derbywww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.bigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Apache Software FoundationMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162015199719922013
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsDocker
Linux
macOS
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaLuaJava Stored Proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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