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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.timescale.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

SiteWhere

Timescale

Initial release

2004

2007

2010

2017

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

14.1, August 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

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

based on HBase

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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