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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. KeyDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Widely 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 protocols

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2004

2019

1994

1987

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

yes

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

yes

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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