DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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.)

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

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

www.postgres-xl.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Microsoft

Yandex

Initial release

2008

1992

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2023

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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