DBMS > jBASE vs. Milvus vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Milvus vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Tigris

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

milvus.io

www.mysql.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

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

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

TempoIQ

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

1991

2019

1995

2012

2022

Current release

5.7

2.4.4, May 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

Vector, Numeric and String

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

with proprietary extensions

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

HTTP API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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