DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. Faircom DB vs. jBASE vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. Faircom DB vs. jBASE vs. OrientDB

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Name

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.

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

FairCom Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

1979

1991

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

V13, July 2024

5.7

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

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

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

optional

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, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP 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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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).

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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