DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

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.)

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.enterprisedb.com

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

www.postgres-xl.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

EnterpriseDB

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

1992

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

14, December 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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