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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.gbase.cn

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

doc.nuodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2004

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2022, May 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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