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DBMS > DataFS vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsMicrosoft 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.)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitenewdatabase.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMobiland AGGigaspaces TechnologiesMicrosoftSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182000199219922001
Current release1.1.263, October 202215.5, September 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201917, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes, event driven architectureyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemShardingnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
noneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-ProfileRole-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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