DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Elasticsearch vs. eXtremeDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Elasticsearch vs. eXtremeDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.dbase.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.mcobject.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Asthon Tate

Elastic

McObject

Initial release

2012

1979

2010

2001

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.6, January 2023

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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