DBMS > Firebird vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

1992

2021

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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