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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime

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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.)

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

Amazon Web Services

Mireo

Initial release

1992

2019

2021

2020

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.0, March 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
C++
Python

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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