DBMS > BigObject vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.)

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

bigobject.io

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

1992

2015

2010

2020

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes, limited

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

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

yes

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