DBMS > BigObject vs. ClickHouse vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. ClickHouse vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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.)

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

clickhouse.com

machbase.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

clickhouse.com/docs

machbase.com/dbms

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Machbase

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2016

2013

1992

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

V8.0, August 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

simple password-based access control

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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