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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. RavenDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantboilerbay.comravendb.net
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Boiler Bay Inc.Hibernating Rhinos
Initial release20042012201020022010
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1.3, April 20224.05.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaErlangJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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