DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Access vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Access vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph 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.)

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2017

1992

2013

2010

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

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

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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