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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. PouchDB

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

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Rank	#212	Overall
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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.datomic.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Asthon Tate

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

1979

2012

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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