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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak KV vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak KV vs. TypeDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsMicrosoft 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.)Application development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.progress.com/­openedgetypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesttypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVaticle
Initial release20091992198420092016
Current release3.10.0, March 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.2.0, December 20222.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoclose to SQL 92nono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesErlangno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users and groupsyes, using Riak Securityyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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EhcacheMicrosoft AccessOpenEdgeRiak KVTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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