DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. VoltDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. VoltDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.postgres-xl.org

www.voltdb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

1992

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

2017

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

10 R1, October 2018

11.3, April 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

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

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

yes

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