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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Derby vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Microsoft 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.)Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdb.apache.org/­derbywww.kingbase.com.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MicrosoftAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20131997199919922008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023V8.0, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGoJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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