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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. CouchDB vs. dBASE vs. Faircom DB

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

couchdb.apache.org

www.dbase.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Asthon Tate

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2012

2005

1979

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

V12, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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