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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. RisingWave 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.)

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

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

Website

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.risingwave.com/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

RisingWave Labs

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1992

2021

2022

2011

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

1.2, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and Roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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