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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks vs. Transbase

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netsphinxsearch.comwww.starrocks.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Sphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release19912005200120201987
Current release5.73.4.2, February 20243.5.1, February 20232.5.3, March 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
MySQL protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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