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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Google

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1991

2014

2020

1987

Current release

5.7

2.1.12, February 2017

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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