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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Derby vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Derby vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe 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 modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftbigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derbywww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.bigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BigObject, Inc.Apache Software FoundationMicrosoftRockset
Initial release20122015199719922019
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonLuaJava Stored Proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnonoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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