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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudMicrosoft 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.)Port of SQLite to JavaScriptA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssql.js.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTransaction Software GmbHVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20121992201219872018
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnonenoneSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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