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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hughes Technologies

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP, formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2004

1994

1993

1994

2018

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.4, October 2021

3.4-12

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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