DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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.)

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.h2database.com

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

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2005

1992

2017

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

Java

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

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

but no files for transaction logging

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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