DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

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

siridb.com

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

IBM

Microsoft

Cesbit

Initial release

2004

2012

2014

1992

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

PL/SQL, SQL PL

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

with Federation

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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