DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. RavenDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. RavenDB vs. Sequoiadb

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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.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

ravendb.net/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Hibernating Rhinos

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1979

2010

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language (RQL)

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.

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

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

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

simple password-based access control

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