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

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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 dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnquestdb.iosphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmltrino.io
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.QuestDB Technology IncSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbHTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20042014200119872012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC#C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supporteddepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneSource-replica replicationdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesnoyesdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
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