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DBMS > GBase vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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 BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storemachbase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storemachbase.com/­dbmshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMMachbaseSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20042008201720131994
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 20212.0V8.0, August 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
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 extensionsnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storagenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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