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DBMS > Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Solr vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Solr vs. Transbase

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 solutionA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesolr.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftOracleApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1992200720061987
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201914.1, August 20239.6.0, April 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoJava pluginsyes
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoLive Eventsyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurableoptimistic lockingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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