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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Access vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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 ScioreDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMicrosoft 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.)NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.datomic.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.datomic.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.nuodb.comdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAmazonCognitectMicrosoftDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20072012199220132017
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava, SQLno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBonline/offline synchronization between client and server
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infoTemporary tableno
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 2003Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes
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