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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

InterSystems

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

1999

2012

1979

2018

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

2023.3, June 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

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

ACID

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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