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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. dBASE vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.dbase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1979

2010

2018

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

Journaling Streams

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

Role-based access control

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