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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Access vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricMicrosoft 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.)DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperElasticMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbhSTS Soft SC
Initial release2010199220152011
Current release8.6, January 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen 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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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsWindowsWindows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.Memcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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