DBMS > FeatureBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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.)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

geospock.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

GeoSpock

Embarcadero

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2017

1984

1992

2010

Current release

2022, May 2022

2.0, September 2019

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

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

yes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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 can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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