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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GBase vs. HarperDB vs. jBASE

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.harperdb.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

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

Developer

FatCloud

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

HarperDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2004

2017

1991

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.1, August 2021

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

Node.js

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

optional

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like data manipulation statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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