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DBMS > GBase vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. RavenDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedkairosdb.github.ioravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Thomas MuellerCirconus LLC.Hibernating Rhinos
Initial release20042005201720132010
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 20181.2.2, November 20185.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaC and C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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