DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. HarperDB vs. Sqrrl vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. HarperDB vs. Sqrrl vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com

www.harperdb.io

sqrrl.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

HarperDB

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

1979

2017

2012

1985

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

optional

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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