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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#147	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#190	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#362	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1991

1984

1987

Current release

5.7

7.4.1.1, 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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