Ember is a framework, jQuery is a library. jQuery doesn't really give you much of anything that you don't have in regular JavaScript, it just makes things a bit

Ember is a framework, jQuery is a library. jQuery doesn't really give you much of anything that you don't have in regular JavaScript, it just makes things a bit more concise and smoothes over some browser inconsistencies. Ember provides you with a structure for your application, two-way binding, a template language (Handlebars), a router, and many other things. It's not better than jQuery, it's a completely different type of thing.