DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

IBM

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Tencent

Initial release

2017

1984

1992

2021

2013

Current release

2.0

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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