DBMS > GBase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

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

rocksdb.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2004

1984

2015

2013

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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