DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. OpenQM vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. dBASE vs. OpenQM vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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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.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com

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

terminusdb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon

Asthon Tate

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

DataChemist Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2012

1979

1993

2018

2019

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.4-12

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

Active-passive shard replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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