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DBMS > Firebolt vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseMicrosoft 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.)A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.MicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesSTS Soft SC
Initial release2020199220212011
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.5.0, January 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageC++JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VMWindows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
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, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
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FireboltMicrosoft AccessOpenSearchSTSdb
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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