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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. dBASE vs. EJDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Initial release

2012

2015

1979

2012

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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 rights for users and roles

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