DBMS > Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2013

2012

1992

2021

2003

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

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.

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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