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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

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

www.monetdb.org

rockset.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.rockset.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MonetDB BV

Rockset

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1991

2004

2019

Current release

5.7

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

dynamic typing

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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