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DBMS > LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. Typesense

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmltypesense.org
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.rockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftRocksetTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20141992201919872015
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesdynamic typingyesyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
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 loggingnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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