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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GBase vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.gbase.cn

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

1999

2012

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

GBase 8a

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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