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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

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	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2004

2007

1983

host version

1984

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

GridGain 8.5.1

12.1, October 2016

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial, open source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

yes, on a single node

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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