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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemMicrosoft 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.)Spatial extension of SQLiteA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMicrosoftAlessandro Furieri8Kdata
Initial release2015199220082016
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-lessAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noAccess rights for users and roles

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