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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#309	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

Current release

GBase 8a

3.1.3, April 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Roles, resources, and access types

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