DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > jBASE vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. PostGIS

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptWidely used open source RDBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.mysql.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)GoogleOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunIBM
Initial release19912014199520002005
Current release5.72.1.12, February 20178.4.0, April 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Aiven for MySQL: Fully managed MySQL, deployable in the cloud of your choice, with seamless integrations and lightning-fast setup.
Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyesuser defined functions
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on PostgreSQL

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesNavicat for MySQL is the ideal solution for MySQL/MariaDB administration and development.
» more

Navicat Monitor is a safe, simple and agentless remote server monitoring tool for MySQL and many other database management systems.
» more

Aiven for MySQL: Fully managed MySQL, deployable in the cloud of your choice, with seamless integrations and lightning-fast setup.
» more

CData: Connect to Big Data & NoSQL through standard Drivers.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
jBASELovefieldMySQLNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMPostGIS
DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL is the DBMS of the Year 2019
3 January 2020, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

MariaDB strengthens its position in the open source RDBMS market
5 April 2018, Matthias Gelbmann

The struggle for the hegemony in Oracle's database empire
2 May 2017, Paul Andlinger

show all

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Temenos signs first customer in India
24 August 2009, Finextra

provided by Google News

Amazon Aurora MySQL version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) to version 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) upgrade ...
18 March 2024, AWS Blog

Enterprise Manager: How Comcast enhanced monitoring for MySQL InnoDB Clusters
22 April 2024, Oracle

Zendesk Moves from DynamoDB to MySQL and S3 to Save over 80% in Costs
29 December 2023, InfoQ.com

Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support
4 March 2024, The Register

General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server ...
17 January 2024, Microsoft

provided by Google News

IBM announces availability of the high-performance, cloud-native Netezza Performance Server as a Service on AWS
11 July 2023, ibm.com

AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off
1 August 2023, The Register

Migrating your Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift | Amazon Web Services
27 May 2020, AWS Blog

U.S. Navy Chooses Yellowbrick, Sunsets IBM Netezza
22 March 2023, Business Wire

IBM Brings Back a Netezza, Attacks Yellowbrick
29 June 2020, Datanami

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

Build AI apps with Vectors on SQL and JSON with milliseconds response times.
Try it today.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here