DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Access vs. SurrealDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Access vs. SurrealDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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 fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

hazelcast.com

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

surrealdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Hazelcast

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2008

1992

2022

2009

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Replicated Map

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Role-based access control

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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