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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnrethinkdb.comrockset.comsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017RocksetAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20042009201920122018
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++C++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic typingyesno
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding inforange basedAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenono

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