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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsSpatial extension of H2Microsoft 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 managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCNRSMicrosoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20092013199219842019
Current release3.10.0, March 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsHP Open VMShosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
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 loggingyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2no infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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