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DBMS > Databricks vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-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.)Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperDatabricksKineticaMicrosoftOpenNMS Group
Initial release20132012201419922014
Current release7.1, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
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