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DBMS > GBase vs. HBase vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HBase vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
RDF store
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orgrockset.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rockset.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocksetDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2004200820192018
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROdynamic typingyes
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingAutomatic shardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 & ABACAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleRole-based access control

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