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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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.)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

hsqldb.org

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

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2001

1992

2000

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java, SQL

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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