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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedEvent StoreRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigobject.iowww.eventstore.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bigobject.iodevelopers.eventstore.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Event Store LimitedMicrosoftYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20072015201219922017
Current release21.2, February 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes
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Amazon SimpleDBBigObjectEventStoreDBMicrosoft AccessYugabyteDB
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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