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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.)Oracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMicrosoftOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2009199220072001
Current release3.10.0, March 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201914.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
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 loggingconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infooptionallyyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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