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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Splice Machine vs. TimesTen

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.)Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesplicemachine.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedOracleSplice MachineOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19922017200720141998
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201914.1, August 20233.1, March 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes infoJavaPL/SQL
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDconfigurableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infooptionallyyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
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, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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