DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

basex.org

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

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.basex.org

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2007

1992

2019

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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