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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx vs. Stardog vs. Teradata Aster

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.comwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)OracleSphinx Technologies Inc.Stardog-UnionTeradata
Initial release19912007200120102005
Current release5.714.1, August 20233.5.1, February 20237.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesnoyesyes
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.yesnono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Yes, 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
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolGraphQL 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
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaR packages
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsnoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurablenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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