DBMS > IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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.)

Widely used RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

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

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Oracle

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2017

1992

1980

2007

2004

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

23c, September 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

configurable

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

optionally

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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