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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMicrosoft 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 developmentA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftMicrosoftRocksetSTS Soft SC
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1992201520192011
Current release5.0.0, January 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedhostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingyes 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.nono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonono
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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