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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. Ehcache vs. LeanXcale

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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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

www.ehcache.org

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ehcache.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

LeanXcale

Initial release

2012

1979

2009

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights for users and roles

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