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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

www.dbase.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Initial release

2012

1979

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

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