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DBMS > jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Stardog vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Stardog vs. Transbase

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareWidely used open source RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.68
Rank#151  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#136  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.mysql.compostgis.netwww.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9dev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunStardog-UnionTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19911995200520101987
Current release5.78.3.0, January 20243.4.2, February 20247.3.0, May 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesyesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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