DBMS > GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. LMDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. LMDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.lmdb.tech/doc

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Symas

OpenPie

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2004

2010

2011

1993

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9.32, January 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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