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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationWidely 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
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM
Initial release201320041983 infohost version
Current release15585GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c12.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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