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DBMS > Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Access

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareMicrosoft 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.)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aideveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEsgynMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20092015201020161992
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.10, January 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java.NET and CC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux.NETLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnonoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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