DBMS > GBase vs. Infobright vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Infobright vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.leanxcale.com

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

LeanXcale

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2004

2005

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

10 R1, October 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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