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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. gStore vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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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.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

2016

2018

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2, November 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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