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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

1991

2019

2014

2016

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

dynamic typing

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

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

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

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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