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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GBase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

1979

2004

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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