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DBMS > Altibase vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Access

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopMicrosoft 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.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhive.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ehcache.org/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAltibaseTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoft
Initial release19992009201320121992
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.10.0, March 20226.2.28, November 20203.1.3, April 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoin SQL-layer onlyyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Linearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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