DBMS > GBase vs. InfinityDB vs. Netezza vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InfinityDB vs. Netezza vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

boilerbay.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Boiler Bay Inc.

IBM

Mireo

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

2002

2000

2020

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.0

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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