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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA multi-model DBMS and application serverMicrosoft 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.)Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.93
Rank#121  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.sqlite.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperInterSystemsMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedDwayne Richard HippStardog-Union
Initial release19971992201720002010
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0 (May 2024)3.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.yesnonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesnoAccess rights for users and roles
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