DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. Elasticsearch vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. Elasticsearch vs. NCache

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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 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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

Elastic

Alachisoft

Initial release

2012

1979

2010

2005

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.6, January 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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