DBMS > jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector 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	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rdf4j.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1991

2014

2021

2004

2003

Current release

5.7

2.5.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

JSON 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

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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