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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#241	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	2.98
Rank	#111	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#299	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bbs.kingbase.com.cn/chess_wenku-index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Sybase, SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1999

1993

1999

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

New applications for transactional and mixed workloads that need to integrate with...
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Key customers

The main customers are: China National Petroleum Corporation China Petrochemical...
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Market metrics

At present, the main market is in China, but expansion to the international market...
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Licensing and pricing models

Business license. Various sales modes: for example, sales by set, sales by CPU quantity,...
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