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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GreptimeDB vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

greptime.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Greptime Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2004

2022

1991

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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