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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MonetDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.04
Rank#190  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.monetdb.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperInterSystemsMonetDB BVApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2018200420141987
Current releaseGBase 8a2023.3, June 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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