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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. VoltDB

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMicrosoft 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 fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessorigodb.compouchdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessorigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alApache Software FoundationVoltDB Inc.
Initial release201419922009 infounder the name LiveDB20122010
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.1.1, June 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C#JavaScriptJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.NetJavaScriptC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesView functions in JavaScriptJava
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesdepending on modelnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
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 infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based authorizationnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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