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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Ehcache vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Access vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Ehcache vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Access vs. Titan

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.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.)Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.exasol.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGExasolMicrosoftAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20052009200019922012
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.10.0, March 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCache.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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