DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. SiriDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. SiriDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

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.)

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	104.92
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	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

siridb.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.siridb.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Cesbit

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

1992

2021

2017

2006

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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