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DBMS > GBase vs. Heroic vs. Netezza vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Heroic vs. Netezza vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaswaydb.simer.auwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.SpotifyIBMSimer PlahaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20042014200020181998
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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