DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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.)

Application development environment with integrated database management system

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

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

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Baidu

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

1992

1984

1987

2000

Current release

0.9

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Users, roles and permissions

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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