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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Access

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Amazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore	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	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.55 Rank #232   Overall #35   Document stores #111   Relational DBMS	Score 2.10 Rank #122   Overall #24   Key-value stores	Score 141.82 Rank #9   Overall #6   Relational DBMS
Website	alasql.org	aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentation	github.com/­agershun/­alasql	docs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	developer.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	Amazon	Microsoft
Initial release	2014	2007	1992
Current release			1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	commercial	commercial Bundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript		C++
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	hosted	Windows Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	no	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.	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes All columns are indexed automatically	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	no	yes but not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET DAO ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	.Net C C++ Erlang Java PHP Python Ruby Scala	C C# C++ Delphi Java (JDBC-ODBC) VBA Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggers	yes	no	yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none Sharding must be implemented in the application	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency can be specified for read operations
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	no Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application	ACID but no files for transaction logging
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	yes	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	no	Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)	no a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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