DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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.)

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.90
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#194	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	91.31
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#80	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

www.gigaspaces.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

1992

2011

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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