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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiteWhere

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 queriesdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.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.)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateMicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release20072015197919922010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
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)noAccess rights for users and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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