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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
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.Well established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.h2database.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Thomas MuellerActian CorporationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release200420051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s1984
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.2.220, July 202311.2, May 20227.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC#Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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