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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
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 HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Chris DavisApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20042006201220102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1.3, April 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonPythonJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnoyes
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.yesnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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