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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Sadas Engine vs. TiDB vs. Ultipa

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngeospock.comwww.sadasengine.compingcap.comwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockSADAS s.r.l.PingCAP, Inc.Ultipa
Initial release2004200620162019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20198.08.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GBaseGeoSpockSadas EngineTiDBUltipa
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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