DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dolphindb.com

www.esgyn.cn

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

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

DolphinDB, Inc

Esgyn

Microsoft

Initial release

1999

2012

2018

2015

1992

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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