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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Oracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.dbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateMicrosoftOracle
Initial release2016197919922007
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201914.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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