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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HBase vs. PostgreSQL vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Widely 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 BigTable

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

hbase.apache.org

www.postgresql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.postgresql.org/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

STS Soft SC

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2004

2008

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2011

2017

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

16.3, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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