DBMS > jBASE vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Rockset

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1991

2019

2010

2014

Current release

5.7

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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

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