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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2004

2009

1984

1994

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.4.1.1, 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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