DBMS > InfinityDB vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

boilerbay.com

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

www.mysql.com

postgis.net

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

postgis.net/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2002

1991

1995

2005

2009

Current release

4.0

5.7

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

optional

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

users and table-level permissions

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