DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

1979

2012

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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