DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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.)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2007

1992

1993

2017

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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