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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasequasar.aisphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9doc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)quasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbHRocket Software
Initial release19912009200119871985
Current release5.73.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyes infointeger and binarynoyesoptional
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyesACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes 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.yesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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