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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

postgis.net

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

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2004

2007

2005

1994

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

14.1, August 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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