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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. dBASE vs. Tkrzw vs. Valentina Server

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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 concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Asthon Tate

Mikio Hirabayashi

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

1979

2020

1999

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.9.3, August 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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