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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Crate

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Rocket Software

Initial release

2013

1991

2014

1985

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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