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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioredBase 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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorerockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateGoogleGoogleRockset
Initial release20071979201520172019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesyes
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesdynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnononoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic single-row operationsyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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