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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Derby vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Derby vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.In-memory JavaScript DBMSMicrosoft 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.)Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopentsdb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20141997201419922011
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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