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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.splunk.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2004

1991

2016

2003

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

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++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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