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

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

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netwww.snowflake.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Snowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19912005201420141987
Current release5.73.4.2, February 20242.3.0, February 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
hostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesyes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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