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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Access vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Access vs. PieCloudDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 optionsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMicrosoft 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.)A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orggeospock.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.openpie.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.ehcache.org/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeoSpockMicrosoftOpenPie
Initial release200520091992
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.10.0, March 20222.0, September 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted
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 viewsnotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCacheJDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic shardingnoneyes
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 methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
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 resourcenoACID 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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"EhcacheGeoSpockMicrosoft AccessPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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