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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.voltdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2014

1992

1993

2010

2015

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Windows

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

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

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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