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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Transbase vs. YDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.Transaction Software GmbHYandex
Initial release20042008201619872019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 20215.10, January 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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