DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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.)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.ehcache.org

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

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.ehcache.org/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2009

1992

2000

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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