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DBMS > GBase vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely 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 simplicitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/postgis.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpostgis.net/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Circonus LLC.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2004201720051987
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in Luauser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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