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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IRONdb vs. MySQL vs. searchxml

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Name

IRONdb 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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.mysql.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2004

2017

1995

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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