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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. LevelDB vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/google/leveldb

google.github.io/lovefield

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1991

2011

2014

2012

Current release

5.7

1.23, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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