DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts

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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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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.)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

InterSystems

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

1992

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

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++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Java

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

yes

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)

yes

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

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