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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Access vs. YugabyteDB

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.In-memory JavaScript DBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftYugabyte Inc.
Initial release19992014200119922017
Current releaseV8.0, August 202111.0, December 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaScriptC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infoSQL92yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesnoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infobut no files for transaction loggingDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes
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Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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