DBMS > GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA vs. TypeDB

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

typedb.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

SAP

Vaticle

Initial release

2004

2013

2007

2010

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.6, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

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

Sharding

yes

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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