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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Microsoft Access vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Access vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph vs. Tkrzw

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMicrosoft 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.)Analytics Platform for Big DataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.splunk.comwww.tigergraph.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftSplunk Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20141992200320172020
Current release2.1.12, February 20171902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20190.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyesno
TriggersUsing read-only observersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes 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.yes infousing MemoryDBnonoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlno

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