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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. LMDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.scylladb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.scylladb.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Symas

ScyllaDB

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2011

2015

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9.32, January 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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