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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2004

1983

host version

2000

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

12.1, October 2016

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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