DBMS > BaseX vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. Oracle vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. Oracle vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.gbase.cn

griddb.net

www.oracle.com/database

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.griddb.net

docs.oracle.com/en/database

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

Developer

BaseX GmbH

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Corporation

Oracle

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2007

2004

2013

1980

1987

Current release

10.7, August 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.1, August 2022

23c, September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

yes

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.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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