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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. OpenEdge

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release20232004200820091984
Current release1.0, March 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 2016OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoUsers and groups

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