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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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.)

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1992

2015

2021

2011

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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