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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

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

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1991

2012

1994

2011

Current release

5.7

7.1.1, June 2019

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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