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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.)Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SCTeradata
Initial release20161992201520112005
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.0.0, September 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC#
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes, limitednoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlangnoR packages
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factornoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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