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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsMicrosoft 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.)A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.snowflake.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesMicrosoftOracleSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20001992201120142006
Current release15.5, September 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201923.3, December 20239.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenouser defined functionsJava plugins
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
noneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnowith Hadoop integrationnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yesyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes

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