DBMS > GBase vs. KeyDB vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. KeyDB vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#219	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2019

2005

2013

2009

Current release

GBase 8a

3.4.2, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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