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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

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

pouchdb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

vitess.io

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1991

2012

2009

2013

Current release

5.7

7.1.1, June 2019

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Groovy
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

optional

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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