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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. QuestDB vs. Realm

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsoft 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.)A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquestdb.iorealm.io
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessquestdb.io/­docsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperManticore SoftwareMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20142017199220142014
Current release6.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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