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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. LeanXcale vs. LMDB

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.leanxcale.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.lmdb.tech/doc

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

LeanXcale

Symas

Initial release

2004

1983

host version

2015

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

12.1, October 2016

0.9.32, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

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

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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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