DBMS > Blueflood vs. GBase vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GBase vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.gbase.cn

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

formerly Sybase

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2004

2014

1992

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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