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

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

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

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Google

Qdrant

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1991

2014

2021

2012

Current release

5.7

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 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

JavaScript

Rust

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

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

yes

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

Key-based authentication

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