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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. dBASE vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons clouddBase 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.Cloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebase
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM
Initial release2012197920042014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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