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DBMS > EJDB vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Newts

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendMicrosoft 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.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperSoftmotionsIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftMicrosoftOpenNMS Group
Initial release20122005199220152014
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCCC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.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
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationno

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