DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. NebulaGraph vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. NebulaGraph vs. Splice Machine

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.nebula-graph.io

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

Konrad von Backstrom

Vesoft Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

1979

2018

2019

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.8, December 2018

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

using RocksDB

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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