DBMS > LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com

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

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

1984

1992

2014

2013

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View 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

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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