DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

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

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2008

1992

1995

Current release

1703

7.2.4, September 2012

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

LDAP

JDBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
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

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

LDAP bind authentication

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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