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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

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.)

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

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

quasar.ai

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

1992

2009

2013

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.14.1, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

integer and binary

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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