DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

www.dbase.com

www.exasol.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.exasol.com/resources

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Exasol

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2015

1979

2000

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Lua
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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