DBMS > GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

Initial release

2004

2013

2014

2021

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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