DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	104.92
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Score	16.36
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Score	0.04
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	#52	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2005

1992

2021

2011

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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

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