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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AntDB vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

Primary database model

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

blueflood.io

www.dbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

Developer

Amazon

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

Initial release

2007

2013

1979

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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