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

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

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Name

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

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

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	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1994

2005

2013

2009

Current release

GBase 8a

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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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