DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. Sphinx

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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.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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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	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

Apache Software Foundation

Boiler Bay Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

1979

2015

2002

2001

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

Apache Ignite 2.6

4.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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 Sphinx index.

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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