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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.)

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Microsoft

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1992

2010

2015

2014

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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