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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. dBASE vs. jBASE vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.dbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

1979

1991

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.7

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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