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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Hive vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 HadoopWell established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnhive.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.net
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookActian Corporation
Initial release200420121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2005
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1.3, April 202211.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC#C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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