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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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.)

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Softmotions

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

1992

1994

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

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