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DBMS > LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssolr.apache.orgterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20141992200620181998
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.6.1, May 202411.0.0, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava pluginsyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
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 loggingoptimistic lockingACIDACID
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 loggingyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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 2003yesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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