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DBMS > GBase vs. MonetDB vs. RDFox vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. MonetDB vs. RDFox vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning enginePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.monetdb.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MonetDB BVOxford Semantic TechnologiesTeradata
Initial release2004200420172005
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cDec2023 (11.49), December 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, RR packages
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusreplication via a shared file systemyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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