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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Access vs. STSdb

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopMicrosoft 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.)Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orghbase.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.MicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release20092008200919922011
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 20161902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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