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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerarkDB

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftSAP, SybaseByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19922015201719872016
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V116.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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