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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

SAP

Initial release

2019

1979

2012

2014

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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