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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. HBase vs. HyperSQL vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

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

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2017

2008

2001

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

MVCC

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

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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