DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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.)

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
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Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.27
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Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

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

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Esgyn

Microsoft

SAP

Cesbit

Initial release

2015

1992

2005

2010

2017

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java 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

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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.

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

based on PostgreSQL

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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