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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 RocksDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAn 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
Search engine
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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
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnrethinkdb.comrockset.comsplicemachine.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017RocksetSplice MachineSimer Plaha
Initial release20042009201920142018
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.4.1, August 20203.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++C++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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 supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoJavano
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding inforange basedAutomatic shardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 consoleAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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