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DBMS > GBase vs. openGauss vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. openGauss vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiDBMS 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 RocksDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cngitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
rethinkdb.comrockset.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
rethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Huawei and openGauss communityThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017RocksetSimer Plaha
Initial release20042019200920192018
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.0, March 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC, C++, JavaC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic typingno
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL 2011noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#C
C++
Java
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding inforange basedAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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