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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenQM vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenQM vs. VoltDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Microsoft 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.)QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFatCloudMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142012199219932010
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4-1211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.no infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesJava
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
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 loggingACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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