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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.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.)mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesRockset
Initial release2008199219942019
Current release7.2.4, September 20121902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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