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DBMS > Altibase vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Access vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Access vs. TerminusDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseMicrosoft 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 Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAltibaseMarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19992014200119922018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311.0, December 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infoSQL92yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role-based access control

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