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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMicrosoft 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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesSTS Soft SC
Initial release2014199220212011
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.5.0, January 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
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 VMWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLMicrosoft AccessOpenSearchSTSdb
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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