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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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.)

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

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

www.progress.com/openedge

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

1992

1984

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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

Users and groups

simple authentication-based access control

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