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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Access

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application serverMicrosoft 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.)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.23
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEmbarcaderoInterSystemsMicrosoft
Initial release2009198419971992
Current release3.10.0, March 2022InterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 resourceACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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