DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Oracle Rdb

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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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
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	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

www.gridgain.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

1979

2007

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

14.1, August 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Live Events

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

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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