DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. Fauna vs. Manticore Search vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. Fauna vs. Manticore Search vs. STSdb

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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.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com

fauna.com

manticoresearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.fauna.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

Fauna, Inc.

Manticore Software

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

1979

2014

2017

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

6.0, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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