DBMS > Firebolt vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

www.gbase.cn

hazelcast.com

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hazelcast

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2020

2004

2008

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.6, November 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

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