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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.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.)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release2012201020171992
Current release1.20.3, January 20236.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersnoyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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