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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

geode.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2004

2002

1983

host version

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.1, February 2017

12.1, October 2016

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Multi-source replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

yes

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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