DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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.)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

1992

2013

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

none

Eventual 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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

Role-based access control

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

simple password-based access control

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