DBMS > GBase vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2004

2005

2013

2019

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.4.2, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

yes, each node contains all data

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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