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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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.)

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#150	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

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

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Baidu

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

1992

2008

Current release

0.9

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users, roles and permissions

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

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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