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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Hive vs. Lovefield vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Widely 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 Hadoop

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

hive.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Google

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2004

2012

2014

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.1.3, April 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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