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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Heroic vs. SAP IQ vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

swaydb.simer.au

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Spotify

SAP, formerly Sybase

Simer Plaha

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

2014

1994

2018

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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