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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2004

1984

2010

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.9.10.12, February 2024

V12

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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