DBMS > Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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.)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.49
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Score	101.16
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Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.kinetica.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Kinetica

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2014

1992

2014

2021

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

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

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

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