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DBMS > DuckDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LeanXcale vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LeanXcale vs. MaxDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSWidely 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.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.gbase.cncloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.leanxcale.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleLeanXcaleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20182004201520151984
Current release1.0.0, June 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c7.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infothrough Apache Derbyyes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess 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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