DBMS > GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#354	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

sphinxsearch.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

8Kdata

Initial release

2010

2001

2020

2016

Current release

GBase 8a

3.5.1, February 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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