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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineMicrosoft 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.)Open Source Time Series DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.graphengine.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssiridb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftMicrosoftCesbitTempoIQ
Initial release20072010199220172012
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C
Server operating systemshosted.NETWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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 automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
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 loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes 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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)no infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003simple rights management via user accountssimple authentication-based access control

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