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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Realm vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#99	Relational DBMS

Website

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

realm.io

typedb.com

Technical documentation

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

realm.io/docs

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Vaticle

Initial release

1991

2014

2016

Current release

5.7

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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