DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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.)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.97
Rank	#189	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

github.com/google/leveldb

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

2008

2011

1992

1999

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.23, February 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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 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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