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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxMicrosoft 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 DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  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.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2developer.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesSTS Soft SC
Initial release1983 infohost version199220212011
Current release12.1, October 20161902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.5.0, January 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open 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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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 and C++C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Windows 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 methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
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 proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2Microsoft 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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