DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

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.)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

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

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2014

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1992

2013

Current release

11.5.2, August 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

simple password-based access control

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