DBMS > jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

objectbox.io

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

ObjectBox Limited

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1991

2017

2019

2014

2019

Current release

5.7

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 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 and C++

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

dynamic typing

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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