DBMS > GBase vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

quasar.ai

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

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

quasardb

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2004

2014

2009

1994

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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