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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryIn-memory caching systemMicrosoft 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.)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcachelot.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20142015199220092009
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIMemcached protocolADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStoragenoyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, using Riak Securityno

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