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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#345	Overall
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Rank	#64	Overall
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Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2009

1992

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

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