DBMS > jBASE vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

nsdb.io

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1991

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

Current release

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

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

yes, using Riak Security

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