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DBMS > Kingbase vs. OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmpostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19991993200520142014
Current releaseV8.0, August 20213.4-123.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaCScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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