DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. dBASE vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. dBASE vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

pinot.apache.org

www.dbase.com

www.oracle.com/database

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.oracle.com/en/database

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Asthon Tate

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2015

1979

1980

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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