DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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.)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
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Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic

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

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2010

2014

2001

1992

2001

Current release

11.0, December 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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

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