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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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.)

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.00
Rank	#394	Overall
	#22	Object oriented DBMS

Score	96.72
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	29.00
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2018

1992

1987

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Windows-Profile

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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