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DBMS > Databend vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.kingbase.com.cnpostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.databend.compostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDatabend LabsBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Apache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20211999200520142014
Current release1.0.59, April 2023V8.0, August 20213.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustC and JavaCScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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