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DBMS > GBase vs. HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Titan

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMonetDB BVAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2004200820042012
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding via remote tablesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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