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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2011

1992

1998

Current release

GBase 8a

23.3, December 2023

17, July 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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