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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

RisingWave Labs

SADAS s.r.l.

Timescale

Initial release

2004

2022

2006

2017

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2, September 2023

8.0

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and Roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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