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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

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Name	jBASE  Xexclude from comparison	PostGIS  Xexclude from comparison	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware	Spatial extension of PostgreSQL	Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database model	Multivalue DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Time Series DBMS
Secondary database models		Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.71 Rank #136   Overall #3   Multivalue DBMS	Score 31.68 Rank #28   Overall #1   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.jbase.com	postgis.net	tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentation	docs.zumasys.com/­jbase	postgis.net/­documentation
Developer	Zumasys		TempoIQ
Initial release	1991	2005	2012
Current release	5.7	3.2.1, February 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source GPL v2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		C
Server operating systems	AIX Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	optional	yes	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	yes	no
Secondary indexes		yes
SQL Support of SQL	Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API SOAP-based API		HTTP API
Supported programming languages	.Net Basic Jabbascript Java		C# Java JavaScript Node.js Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	user defined functions	no
Triggers	yes	yes	yes Realtime Alerts
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	yes based on PostgreSQL
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes based on PostgreSQL
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	yes based on PostgreSQL	simple authentication-based access control
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