DBMS > GBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Oracle vs. ScyllaDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Oracle vs. ScyllaDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

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

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/database

www.scylladb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Oracle

ScyllaDB

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2004

1980

2015

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

23c, September 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

yes

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

yes

in-memory tables

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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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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