DBMS > jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

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

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1991

2005

2014

2006

1987

Current release

5.7

3.4.2, February 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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