DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Access vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Access vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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 distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Tencent

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

1992

2013

2019

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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