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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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.)

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2014

1992

2007

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

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
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java

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

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

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

optionally

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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