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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. KeyDB vs. Netezza vs. Newts vs. Sphinx

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaopennms.github.io/­newtssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.IBMOpenNMS GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20042019200020142001
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuayesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple password-based access control and ACLUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono

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