DBMS > GBase vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Actian Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2004

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

yes

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