DBMS > GBase vs. gStore vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. gStore vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

en.gstore.cn

ignite.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2004

2016

2015

2007

2010

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

yes

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Security Hooks for custom implementations

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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