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DBMS > Kingbase vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnspark.apache.org/­sqlterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Apache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release1999201420181987
Current releaseV8.0, August 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaScalaProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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