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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. Hazelcast

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

Hazelcast

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

1979

2008

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Replicated Map

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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