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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. Solr

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMicrosoft 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.)RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrdf4j.orgwww.sequoiadb.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20141992200420132006
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
proprietary protocol using JSONJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesJavaScriptJava plugins
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedDocument is locked during a transactionoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nosimple password-based access controlyes

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