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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Ingres vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Well established RDBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

galaxybase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

Actian Corporation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2017

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2004

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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