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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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.)

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

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

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1992

2011

2010

2022

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

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

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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