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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.mysql.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Cesbit

Initial release

2009

2017

1992

1995

2017

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Active-active shard replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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