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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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.)

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
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Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

1991

1992

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

Current release

5.7

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

10 R1, October 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

MVCC

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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