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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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.)

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Transwarp

Initial release

2009

1992

2020

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

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)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

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

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