Description
Most database software asks you to choose a paradigm before you properly understand the problem. You commit to relational, or to graph, or to OLAP, and that decision follows you for years — through schema migrations, through connector layers, through the slow accretion of glue code that exists only to move data between stores that disagree about what data is.
JabrDB does not work that way. Every personality in the application rests on one mathematical substrate, Data Algebra. A relational row, an RDF triple, a time-stamped reading and a key-value pair are the same kind of object underneath; they differ in how you address them, not in what they are. Changing paradigm is not a migration. It is a change of query surface.
JabrDB Prime gives you that entire surface as it stands with all the personalities in version 1.
What you get
The JabrDB base application, including the Algebraic personality — the reference implementation of the data algebra, with clans, relations and couplets addressed directly through the full operator set. It is always available and underpins everything else.
Plus all seven purchasable personalities:
| Personality | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| SQL | Familiar CREATE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE over algebraic storage. SQL constructs map onto algebraic operators — projection, composition, restriction — rather than onto a separate engine. |
| Graph | A unified graph personality with two query surfaces: JCQL, derived from Cypher, and JSPARQL, derived from SPARQL. Property graphs and triple stores in one place. |
| Key-Value | A direct key-value store, for configuration, caches and anything that does not want a schema imposed on it. |
| OLAP | Cubes, dimensions, measures and hierarchies, with an analytical query surface for aggregation across them. |
| Media | Binary assets held with structured metadata, so images, audio and video are catalogued and queryable alongside everything else. |
| Document | Document collections addressed as documents rather than as rows. You choose the index type per collection — structural, term or vector — so the same personality serves XML navigation, full-text search and semantic similarity without three separate stores. |
| Time Series | Time-ordered data with the ordering, windowing and retention behaviour that series data actually requires. |
All seven arrive on one licence key.
Why the bundle
Bought separately, the base application and seven personality packs come to $96. Prime is $75. But the saving is the lesser argument.
The stronger one is that the personalities are worth more together than apart. The point of a single algebraic substrate is that you can hold the same body of data under several descriptions at once — model it relationally, traverse it as a graph, aggregate it as a cube — without moving it anywhere. Owning one personality gives you a database. Owning all of them gives you the thing JabrDB was actually built to be.
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