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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  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 CouchDBMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSWidely used open source RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.mysql.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunObjectBox Limited
Initial release20042010198919952017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cSQL Server 2022, November 20228.4.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonErlangC++C and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes
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