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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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.)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	3.34
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	115.33
Rank	#11	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#316	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

siridb.net

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.siridb.net

Developer

InterSystems

Microsoft

Transceptor Technology

Initial release

1997

1992

2017

Current release

2017.2, October 2017

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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