DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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.)

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cassandra.apache.org

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2008

1992

2005

1998

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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