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DBMS > GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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 CouchDBA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SymasObjectBox Limited
Initial release2004201020112017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.9.32, January 20244.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonErlangCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes
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