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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. KeyDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

machbase.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

machbase.com/dbms

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Machbase

Initial release

1991

2019

2013

2005

Current release

5.7

V8.0, August 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control and ACL

simple password-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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