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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platformdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.gbase.cncloud.google.com/­datastorehive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2004200820122010
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsusing Google App Engineyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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