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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. LokiJS vs. SAP IQ vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Initial release

2004

2014

1994

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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