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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

High performance Time Series DBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

kx.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic

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

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

code.kx.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Initial release

2008

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

2001

1992

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.6, May 2018

11.0, December 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL92

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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

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