DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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.

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.)

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2016

1992

2019

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

C
C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

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.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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