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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMicrosoft 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.)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2009200719922000
Current release3.10.0, March 2022GridGain 8.5.11902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes (replicated cache)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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