DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

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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	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

IBM

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

1979

2014

2018

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

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

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes

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