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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.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.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#304  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.postgresql.fastware.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyMicrosoft
Initial release200820141992
Current release7.2.4, September 2012Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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 logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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