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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GBase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.gbase.cn

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.timescale.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Percona

Timescale

Initial release

2015

2004

2015

2017

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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