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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kineticacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2004201020122011
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonErlangC, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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