DBMS > HBase vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

hbase.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Google

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

1992

2021

2001

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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