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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PlanetScale vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.)Oracles in-memory data grid solutionScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceplanetscale.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceplanetscale.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftOraclePlanetScaleSiteWhere
Initial release1992200720202010
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201914.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurableACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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