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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EsgynDB vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Esgyn

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1999

2015

2004

2007

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C, Java, Python

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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