DBMS > HBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Vertica

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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.)

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	11.40
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

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

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2008

1992

2013

2001

2005

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

full-text index on all search fields

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark 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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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