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

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

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 LuceneIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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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
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssolr.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlyottadb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20141992200619982001
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.6.1, May 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC
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)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesno
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 indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava pluginsPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
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 integritynoyesnoyes
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 lockingACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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