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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Graph Engine vs. Hive vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.graphengine.io

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

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

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2004

2010

2012

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.1.3, April 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

.NET and C

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Erlang

Triggers

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes, using Riak Security

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