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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2017

1998

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

GBase 8a

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Depending on the underlying data source

Using Apache Lucene

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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