DBMS > GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2004

2010

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

Erlang

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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