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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Yanza

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza 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.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Sybase, SAP

Yanza

Initial release

2004

2014

1993

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

schema-free

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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