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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. gStore

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	22.12
Rank	#27	Overall
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#373	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS
	#20	RDF stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

en.gstore.cn

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2008

2016

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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