DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

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.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Primary database model

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Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.dbase.com

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dgraph.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Asthon Tate

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Initial release

2012

2000

1979

2016

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

TDB Transactions

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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