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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnquestdb.iorocksdb.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.QuestDB Technology IncFacebook, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20042014201320011987
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c9.4.0, June 20243.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesyesnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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