DBMS > GBase vs. GridGain vs. HBase vs. Oracle vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GridGain vs. HBase vs. Oracle vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Widely used RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.gridgain.com

hbase.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

quasardb

Initial release

2004

2007

2008

1980

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

GridGain 8.5.1

2.3.4, January 2021

23c, September 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Coprocessors in Java

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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