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DBMS > jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netrealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationrealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release1991200520141992
Current release5.73.4.2, February 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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