DBMS > GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle vs. SQL.JS vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle vs. SQL.JS vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

sql.js.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Baidu

Oracle

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2018

1980

2012

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9

23c, September 2023

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C and C++

JavaScript

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JavaScript API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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