DBMS > GBase vs. LeanXcale vs. ScyllaDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. LeanXcale vs. ScyllaDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.leanxcale.com

www.scylladb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.scylladb.com

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

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

LeanXcale

ScyllaDB

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2004

2015

2020

1987

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

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

C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, 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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Immediate 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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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