DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

informationpartners gmbh

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

1979

2008

2015

2016

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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