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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

drill.apache.org

geospock.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

drill.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2012

2014

1992

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

2.0, September 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

but no files for transaction logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per table

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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