DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. KairosDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. KairosDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

dgraph.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dgraph.io/docs

kairosdb.github.io

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

1979

2016

2013

2003

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 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 and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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