DBMS > GBase vs. Infobright vs. SAP HANA vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Infobright vs. SAP HANA vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

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

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2004

2005

2010

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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