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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. RavenDB vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

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

ravendb.net

realm.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

ravendb.net/docs

realm.io/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Hibernating Rhinos

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Alex Kashirin

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1991

2010

2014

2020

2010

Current release

5.7

5.4, July 2022

0.5, April 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Java

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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