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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RethinkDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA multi-model DBMS and application serverDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacherethinkdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.intersystems.comrethinkdb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.InterSystemsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20042013199720092011
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.6, April 20242018.1.4, May 20202.4.1, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonGoC++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
TriggersyesnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsBased on Windows Authentication
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GBaseInfluxDBInterSystems CachéRethinkDBVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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