DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Access vs. NebulaGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Access vs. NebulaGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

DataStax 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.

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 distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

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

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

DataStax

Microsoft

Vesoft Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2011

1992

2019

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

6.8, April 2020

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

using RocksDB

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 can be defined per object

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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