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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPMicrosoft 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.)mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#118  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#168  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score107.93
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#170  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpostgis.net
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscubrid.org/­manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationMicrosoftHughes Technologies
Initial release20122008199219942005
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.0, January 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++CC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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