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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2004

2010

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C, Java, Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Role-based access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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