DBMS > GBase vs. H2GIS vs. Ignite vs. jBASE vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. H2GIS vs. Ignite vs. jBASE vs. Realm

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.h2gis.org

ignite.apache.org

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

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

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

realm.io/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2004

2013

2015

1991

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Apache Ignite 2.6

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes (replicated cache)

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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