DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.)

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

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

Website

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

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

www.sqlite.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

STS Soft SC

Teradata

Initial release

1992

1987

2000

2011

2005

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

16.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

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

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java and Transact-SQL

R packages

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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