DBMS > GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. Sequoiadb

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

Amazon Web Services

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2021

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

simple password-based access control

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