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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opentsdb.net

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2004

1989

2011

2008

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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