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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1991

2003

1989

2020

Current release

5.7

1.6.27, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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