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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. MaxDB vs. SpaceTime vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Vertica

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

maxdb.sap.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

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

Mireo

Rocket Software

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2004

1984

2020

1985

2005

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.9.10.12, February 2024

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark 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

configurable

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

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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