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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HarperDB vs. HBase vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.harperdb.io

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

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

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

HarperDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2004

2017

2008

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.1, August 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Node.js

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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 data manipulation statements

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 and roles

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

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