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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#73	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2004

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Linux
OS X

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

yes

yes, using Riak Security

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