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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisperdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Chris DavisApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20042006201220092010
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonPythonJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnono
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 indexesyesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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