DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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.)

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Alachisoft

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1983

1992

2005

2010

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Notifications

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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