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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset vs. Transbase

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.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.)A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.rockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationMicrosoftRocksetTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19792014199220191987
Current releaseV12, November 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaScriptC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresnoyesdynamic typingyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).nonenoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes 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 loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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