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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. dBASE vs. gStore vs. Oracle Rdb

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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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Primary database model

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.dbase.com

en.gstore.cn

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

1979

2016

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2, November 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

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

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

yes

yes, on a single node

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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