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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and othersMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20122014199219942009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release4.0.5, February 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++CC#
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layernonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
depending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noRole based authorization

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