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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA widely adopted in-memory data gridMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iohazelcast.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftHazelcastMicrosoft
Initial release2010200819922005
Current release5.3.6, November 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaC++C
Server operating systems.NETAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infobased on PostgreSQL

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