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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. jBASE vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.gbase.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Teradata

Initial release

2015

2004

1991

2005

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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