DBMS > jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

objectbox.io

sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.objectbox.io

docs.sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

SQream Technologies

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1991

2014

2017

2014

Current release

5.7

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

JSON types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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