DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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.)

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.eventstore.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.eventstore.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon

Event Store Limited

IBM

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

1992

2009

Current release

21.2, February 2021

12.1, October 2016

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

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