DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. dBASE vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. dBASE vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

dBase 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.

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.dbase.com

milvus.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datastax.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

DataStax

Asthon Tate

Initial release

2016

2012

2011

1979

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

6.8, April 2020

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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