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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Access vs. Transbase

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.harperdb.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDataStaxHarperDBIBMMicrosoftTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20112017201719921987
Current release6.8, April 20203.1, August 20212.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedActive-active shard replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDBYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Datastax EnterpriseHarperDBIBM Db2 Event StoreMicrosoft AccessTransbase
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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