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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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.)

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2018

2014

1992

2015

Current release

0.8, December 2018

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Erlang

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

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

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