DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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.)

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Percona

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

1992

2015

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

text, numeric, histograms

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP 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
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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