DBMS > GBase vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ToroDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ToroDB vs. Yaacomo

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SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Widely 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 ElasticSearch

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/torodb/server

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Spotify

Sybase, SAP

8Kdata

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2004

2014

1993

2016

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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