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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. dBASE vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLiteKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.comrethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaserethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro FurieriSTS Soft SC
Initial release20071979200920082011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
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-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.noyes
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 rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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