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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingMicrosoft 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.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.postgres-xl.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2016199220152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2004
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID infoMVCCACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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