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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1991

2007

2014

Current release

5.7

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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

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