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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosoft 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.)Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpouchdb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedOracleApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release19922017201120122000
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201923.3, December 20237.1.1, June 20193.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesAccess rights for users and rolesnono
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