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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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 open source RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

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

www.mysql.com

origodb.com

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

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

dev.mysql.com/doc

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1984

1992

1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

1987

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Write ahead log

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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