DBMS > LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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.)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic

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

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2001

1992

2014

2017

Current release

11.0, December 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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