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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Widely 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.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

rethinkdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2004

2009

2018

1987

2018

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.4.1, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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