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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SiriDB vs. SQLite

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Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.progress.com/openedge

siridb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.siridb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Cesbit

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1991

2013

1984

2017

2000

Current release

5.7

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

Numeric data

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users and groups

simple rights management via user accounts

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