DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS

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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.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

www.enterprisedb.com

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

EnterpriseDB

Esgyn

Initial release

2012

1979

2005

2015

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

Data 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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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