DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. PieCloudDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. PieCloudDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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.)

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.openpie.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

OpenPie

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

1992

2013

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.1, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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