DBMS > jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.postgres-xl.org

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

quasardb

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1991

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2000

Current release

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, using Riak Security

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