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DBMS > jBASE vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore vs. STSdb

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.orgwww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Pinecone Systems, IncSingleStore Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release199120192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20132011
Current release5.710 R1, October 20188.5, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoC#
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Linux info64 bit version requiredWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalString, Number, Booleanyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesno
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