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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesMicrosoft 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.)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspouchdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogleMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release20142011199220122018
Current release1.23, February 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnono
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 indexesnonoyesyes infovia viewsno
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 APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
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 loggingnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nono

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