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DBMS > GBase vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.monetdb.orgpostgis.netsphinxsearch.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpostgis.net/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MonetDB BVSphinx Technologies Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20042004200520012020
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 20243.5.1, February 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonCCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding via remote tablesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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