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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. KairosDB vs. MaxDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2004

2013

1984

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2.2, November 2018

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

no

yes

no

Triggers

yes

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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