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DBMS > BoltDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory JavaScript DBMSMicrosoft 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.)Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.62
Rank#230  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.38
Rank#268  Overall
#43  Document stores
Score91.31
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score99.49
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquasar.aiwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20132014199220092000
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 20243.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptC++C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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