DBMS > jBASE vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

github.com/google/leveldb

www.mysql.com

sql.js.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1991

2011

1995

2012

Current release

5.7

1.23, February 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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