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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Realm vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

realm.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

realm.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Percona

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

informationpartners gmbh

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2004

2008

2014

2015

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.0.36-28, 2024

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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