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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

InterSystems

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2004

2018

1987

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2023.3, June 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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 (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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