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DBMS > Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMicrosoft 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.)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orggeospock.comhbase.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2009200819922009
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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 indexesnotemporal, categoricalnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlang
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, using Riak Security

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