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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequasar.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddoc.nuodb.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.quasardbOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20042014201320091998
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.1.12, February 20173.14.1, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLnoPL/SQL
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes infoTemporary tableyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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