DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. TDengine

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

SAP

ScyllaDB

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1992

1993

2010

2015

2019

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

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

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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