DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft Access vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft Access vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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.)

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

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

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.org/manuals

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

1992

2015

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java 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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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