DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2012

1979

2012

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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