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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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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.)

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

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

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

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

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

STS Soft SC

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1992

2012

2010

2011

1998

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C#
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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