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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Microsoft 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.)Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrocksdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonDGraph LabsMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20142012201719922013
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
GoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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