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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenSearch vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.graphengine.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

opensearch.org/docs/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2004

2010

2021

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

.NET and C

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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