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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon DynamoDB

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon DynamoDB is a cloud-native, NoSQL, serverless database service.

    $0

    capacity unit per hour

    Microsoft Access

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.

    $139.99

    per PC

    Pricing
    Amazon DynamoDBMicrosoft Access
    Editions & Modules
    Provisioned - Read Operation
    $0.00013
    capacity unit per hour
    Provisioned - Write Operation
    $0.00065
    capacity unit per hour
    Provisioned - Global Tables
    $0.000975
    per Read Capacity
    On-Demand Streams
    $0.02
    per 100,000 read operations
    Provisioned - Streams
    $0.02
    per 100,000 read operations
    On-Demand Data Requests Outside AWS Regions
    $0.09
    per GB
    Provisioned - Data Requests Outside AWS Regions
    $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand Snapshot
    $0.10
    per GB per month
    Provisioned - Snapshot
    $0.10
    per GB per month
    On-Demand Restoring a Backup
    $0.15
    per GB
    Provisioned - Restoring a Backup
    $0.15
    per GB
    On-Demand Point-in-Time Recovery
    $0.20
    per GB per month
    Provisioned - Point-in-Time Recovery
    $0.20
    per GB per month
    On-Demand Read Operation
    $0.25
    per million requests
    On-Demand Data Stored
    $0.25
    per GB per month
    Provisioned - Data Stored
    $0.25
    per GB per month
    On-Demand - Write Operation
    $1.25
    per million requests
    On-Demand Global Tables
    $1.875
    per million write operations replicated
    Microsoft Access
    $139.99
    per PC
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon DynamoDBMicrosoft Access
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon DynamoDBMicrosoft Access
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    47 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    46 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    Features
    Amazon DynamoDBMicrosoft Access
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Amazon DynamoDB and Microsoft Access
    Feature
    Amazon DynamoDB
    9.2
    69 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Microsoft Access
    -
    Ratings
    Performance9.368 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability9.569 Ratings00 Ratings
    Concurrency9.067 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security9.269 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.468 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data model flexibility8.266 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility10.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of Amazon DynamoDB and Microsoft Access
    Feature
    Amazon DynamoDB
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Access
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    5% below category average
    ACID compliance00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Database locking00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Disaster recovery00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon DynamoDBMicrosoft Access
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon DynamoDBMicrosoft Access
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (79 ratings)
    7.4
    (102 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (34 ratings)
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.2
    (4 ratings)
    6.4
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (42 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon DynamoDBMicrosoft Access
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It’s great for server less and real-time applications. It would be great for gaming and mobile apps. However, if you need relational database and have fixed budget, do not use it. While budget can be managed, you need to be careful. Also this is not a tool for storing big data, there are other wide-column database types you could use for it ins the ad
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    Microsoft
    As a Material Purchasing/Planning/inventory tracking application, Microsoft Access serves its purpose well. It's presentation is clean, data entry is simple and the ability to customize search fields is welcome. It does, however, come with some caveats; namely, when setting search filters and the need arises to back up a step or two, with Microsoft Access you have to reset, or "clear all", adding extra steps/time to a query.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • To manage varying workloads, it enables users to increase capacity as necessary and decrease it as needed.
    • Users can take advantage of its auto-scaling, in-memory caching, and backup without paying for the services of a database administrator.
    • We can use it for low scale operations.
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    Microsoft
    • Very easy to create entity-relationship diagrams for various tables and designing mock layouts.
    • Really easy to navigate as it hold[s] the classic Microsoft UI. Another good thing is that it comes with the complete MS Office Suite.
    • It is really fast when joining multiple tables no matter what type of join.
    • Works on pretty much same SQL scripts so no need to learn a new language!
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Cost model may not be easy to control and may lead to higher costs if not carefully planned
    • Indexing may be a cost culprit when not planned, because it's not included on the data costs
    • The Query Language may not fulfill everybody's expectations, as it has less features than those of competitors.
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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft Access has not really changed at all for several years. It might be nice to see some upgrades and changes.
    • The help info is often not helpful. Need more tutorials for Microsoft Access to show how to do specific things.
    • Be careful naming objects such as tables, forms, etc. Names that are too long can get cut off in dialog boxes to choose a table, form, report, etc. So, I wish they would have resizable dialog boxes to allow you to see objects with long names.
    • I wish it could show me objects that are not in use in the database for current queries, tables, reports, forms, and macros. That way unused objects can be deleted without worrying about losing a report or query because you deleted the underlying object.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    It's core to our business, we couldn't survive without it. We use it to drive everything from FTP logins to processing stories and delivering them to clients. It's reliable and easy to query from all of our pipeline services. Integration with things like AWS Lambda makes it easy to trigger events and run code whenever something changes in the database.
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    Microsoft
    I and the rest of my team will renew our Microsoft Access in the future because we use and maintain many different applications and databases created using Microsoft Access so we will need to maintain them in the future. Additionally, it is a standard at our place of work so it is at $0 cost to us to use. Another reason for renewing Microsoft Access is that we just don' t have the resources needed to extend into a network of users so we need to remain a single-desktop application at this time.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Functionally, DynamoDB has the features needed to use it. The interface is not as easy to use, which impacts its usability. Being familiar with AWS in general is helpful in understanding the interface, however it would be better if the interface more closely aligned with traditional tools for managing datastores.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Access is easy to use. It is compatible with spreadsheets. It is a very good data management tool. There is scope to save a large amount of data in one place. For using this database, one does not need much training, can be shared among multiple users. This database has to sort and filtering features which seem to be very useful.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    I don't think the program has ever failed me. It is one of those programs where there is always a solution if you know where to look.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    It works very well across all the regions and response time is also very quick due to AWS's internal data transfer. Plus if your product requires HIPPA or some other regulations needs to be followed, you can easily replicate the DB into multiple regions and they manage all by it's own.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    I have not had to contact support for this service, however I have had to contact AWS for other services and their support has been good.
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    Microsoft
    While I have never contacted Microsoft directly for product support, for some reason there's a real prejudice against MS Access among most IT support professionals. They are usually discouraging when it comes to using MS Access. Most of this is due to their lack of understanding of MS Access and how it can improve one's productivity. If Microsoft invested more resources towards enhancing and promoting the use of MS Access then maybe things would be different.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    there is no key idea, since it is easy to implement Microsoft Access
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    The only thing that can be compared to DynamoDB from the selected services can be Aurora. It is just that we use Aurora for High-Performance requirements as it can be 6 times faster than normal RDS DB. Both of them have served as well in the required scenario and we are very happy with most of the AWS services.
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    Microsoft
    Excel is a fantastic - robust application that can do so much so easily. Its easy to train and understand. However - excel does not provide a reporting function and that is typically where we will suggest a move to [Microsoft] Access. [Microsoft] Access requires a little more knowledge of data manipulation.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    I have taken one point away due to its size limits. In case the application requires queries, it becomes really complicated to read and write data. When it comes to extremely large data sets such as the case in my company, a third-party logistics company, where huge amount of data is generated on a daily basis, even though the scalability is good, it becomes difficult to manage all the data due to limits.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Some developers see DynamoDB and try to fit problems to it, instead of picking the best solution for a given problem. This is true of any newer tool that people are trying to adopt.
    • It has allowed us to add more scalability to some of our systems.
    • As with any new technology there was a ramp up/rework phase as we learned best practices.
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    Microsoft
    • Not having to recreate queries or reports every time you want to use them.
    • Once an item is created and saved as part of the database, you save manpower by not having to recreate them.
    • ROI from a usability standpoint is great. Solid product with great functionality that requires low maintenance usually.
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