DBMS > EsgynDB vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.gbase.cn

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2015

2004

2014

1983

host version

2004

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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