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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridDB vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

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.)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

griddb.net

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.griddb.net

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Toshiba Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2019

2012

2013

1992

Current release

5.1, August 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID at container level

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

but no files for transaction logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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