DBMS > jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. Stardog

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Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

questdb.io

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

questdb.io/docs

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Oracle

QuestDB Technology Inc

Stardog-Union

Initial release

1991

2014

2007

2014

2010

Current release

5.7

14.1, August 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

SQL with time-series extensions

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

.Net
C++
Java

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Live Events

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

configurable

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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