DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SurrealDB

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Name

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.)

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2014

1992

1984

2022

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes, on a single node

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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