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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingMicrosoft 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.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.memcached.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikideveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftMicrosoftMonetDB BV
Initial release20022003199220152004
Current release4.01.6.27, May 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V1Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyesyesyes
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 indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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