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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. SiriDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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.)

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

objectbox.io

siridb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.objectbox.io

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Cesbit

8Kdata

Initial release

2018

1992

2017

2016

Current release

0.8, December 2018

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in 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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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