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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosoft 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.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release19922015201720092010
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infointeger and binaryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonono
Triggersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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