DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

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.)

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Oracle

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2014

1992

2007

2012

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

configurable

ACID

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

optionally

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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)

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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