DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Raima Database Manager

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Raima Database Manager

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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.)

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.exasol.com

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

raima.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.exasol.com/resources

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.raima.com

Developer

Amazon

Exasol

Microsoft

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2007

2000

1992

1989

1984

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

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
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

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.

yes

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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