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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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.)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

hbase.apache.org

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2016

2008

1992

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.3.4, January 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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

yes

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