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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

8Kdata

Initial release

2004

1994

2015

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

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

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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