DBMS > GBase vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB vs. ToroDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sybase, SAP

Alex Kashirin

8Kdata

Initial release

2004

1995

1993

2020

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.4.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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