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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
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Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

newdatabase.com

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

postgis.net

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

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

postgis.net/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Mobiland AG

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2018

1991

2005

2003

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

5.7

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users and roles

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