DBMS > GBase vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2004

2018

2010

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.8, December 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

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