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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LeanXcale vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.leanxcale.com

postgis.net

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

postgis.net/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

LeanXcale

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2004

2015

2005

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.4.2, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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