DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GridDB vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GridDB vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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 in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dbase.com

griddb.net

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.griddb.net

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

Toshiba Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

1979

2013

2016

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.1, August 2022

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate 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 at container level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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