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DBMS > Geode vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Access

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Microsoft 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 storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.intersystems.comkairosdb.github.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.InterSystemsMicrosoft
Initial release2002199720131992
Current release1.1, February 20172018.1.4, May 20201.2.2, November 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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