DBMS > Databend vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HyperSQL vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HyperSQL vs. LeanXcale

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

hsqldb.org

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Databend Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

LeanXcale

Initial release

2021

2004

2015

2001

2015

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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