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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

boilerbay.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Rackspace

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2002

2014

1992

Current release

4.0

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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