DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Qdrant vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Qdrant vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/apple/foundationdb

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

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apple.github.io/foundationdb

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

qdrant.tech/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FoundationDB

Microsoft

Qdrant

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2013

1992

2021

2014

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

in SQL-layer only

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

Key-based authentication

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