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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. TiDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseMicrosoft 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.)An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
pingcap.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftHuawei and openGauss communityPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2014199220192016
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.0, March 20228.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, C++, JavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardANSI SQL 2011yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)horizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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