DBMS > Blueflood vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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.)

A managed, cloud-native vector database

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.esgyn.cn

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

www.pinecone.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Rackspace

Esgyn

Microsoft

Pinecone Systems, Inc

SAP

Initial release

2013

2015

1992

2019

2010

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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