DBMS > jBASE vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1991

2004

2014

2003

Current release

5.7

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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