DBMS > GBase vs. mSQL vs. OceanBase vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. mSQL vs. OceanBase vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

en.oceanbase.com

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hughes Technologies

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2004

1994

2010

2013

2001

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.4, October 2021

4.3.0, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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