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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2008

2004

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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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