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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Valentina Server

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareWidely used open source RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.mysql.compostgis.netwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9dev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunParadigma Software
Initial release20021991199520051999
Current release4.05.78.4.0, April 20243.4.2, February 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysoptionalyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesyes
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess 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
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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