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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/spanner

rockset.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Rockset

Initial release

2013

2004

2017

2019

Current release

15585

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

dynamic typing

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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