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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. HyperSQL

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydBase 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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhsqldb.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateSoftmotions
Initial release20192012197920122001
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 20192.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noJava, SQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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