DBMS > Derby vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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.)

Spatial extension of SQLite

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

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

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

yanza.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Yanza

Initial release

1997

2012

1992

2008

2015

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

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

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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