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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA

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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.)

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

quasardb

SAP

Initial release

1992

1984

2009

2010

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP Open VMS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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