DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OceanBase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OceanBase

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Name

Description

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

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 distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

2012

1992

2011

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.2.3, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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