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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime

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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, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Mireo

Initial release

2004

1994

2021

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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 capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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