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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. openGauss vs. SpaceTime

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosoft 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.)Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.alachisoft.com/­ncachegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftAlachisoftHuawei and openGauss communityMireo
Initial release1992200520192020
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.3.3, April 20243.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC, C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.ANSI SQL 2011A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoNotificationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes
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Microsoft AccessNCacheopenGaussSpaceTime
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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