DBMS > GBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

siridb.com

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

DataChemist Ltd.

Transwarp

Initial release

2004

1992

2017

2018

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

yes

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