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DBMS > GBase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cncloud.google.com/­spannerwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OracleSybase, SAP
Initial release20042017199920071993
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV8.0, August 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011Standard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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