DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Access vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Access vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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.)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hsqldb.org

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

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

2001

1992

2014

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, SQL

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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