DBMS > GBase vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

wakanda.github.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP

Wakanda SAS

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2010

2012

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++, JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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