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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. jBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Softmotions

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP

formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1991

1992

2014

Current release

5.7

17, July 2015

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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 can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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