DBMS > GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

2010

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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