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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. ClickHouse vs. dBASE

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
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Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

pinot.apache.org

clickhouse.com

www.dbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.pinot.apache.org

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Clickhouse Inc.

Asthon Tate

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

1979

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

dBase proprietary IDE

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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 rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users and roles

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