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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Chris Davis

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2006

1983

host version

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

12.1, October 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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