DBMS > JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used in-process key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

1991

1994

2013

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

5.7

18.1.40, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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