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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.41
Rank	#147	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#362	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1991

1987

2019

Current release

5.7

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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