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

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

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SAP infoformerly SybaseTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1991200519921987
Current release5.73.4.2, February 202417, July 2015Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication
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 integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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