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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Transaction Software GmbH

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

2011

1980

1987

2019

Current release

0.8, December 2018

23c, September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free development license

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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