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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceWidely used open source RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached API
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.mysql.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdev.mysql.com/­doc
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun
Initial release20042013200320141995
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.6, April 20241.6.25, March 20248.4.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonGoCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes infoJSON typesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoJavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesnonoJavaScriptyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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