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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  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.)Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOracles in-memory data grid solutionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime 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
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedOracleOracle
Initial release1992201720072011
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0 (May 2024)14.1, August 202324.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesoptional
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes, with selectable consistency levelElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDconfigurableconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users and roles
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