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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. H2 vs. Lovefield vs. Netezza vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Widely 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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.h2database.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Thomas Mueller

Google

IBM

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2004

2005

2014

2000

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.2.220, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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