DBMS > GBase vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. PieCloudDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. PieCloudDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

typedb.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

OpenPie

Vaticle

Initial release

2004

1995

2017

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.4.0, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

yes

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Specific characteristics

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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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News

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16 May 2024

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23 April 2024

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15 February 2024

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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