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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

Developer

FairCom Corporation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1979

2010

2015

1991

Current release

V12, November 2020

3.3 July 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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