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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access 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. info

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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Website

products.office.com/en-us/access

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff604965.aspx

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

1992

2010

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS03, April 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only info

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

DAO
OLE DB
ADO.NET
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

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

yes

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