DBMS > Linter vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Linter vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

RDBMS for high security requirements

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 DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

linter.ru

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

milvus.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

relex.ru

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1990

1992

2019

2021

2003

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.3.4, January 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Eventual 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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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