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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. Milvus vs. Yaacomo

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionWidely 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/LinuxA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBMultivalue DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasemilvus.ioyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9milvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20041983 infohost version199120192009
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c12.1, October 20165.72.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GBaseIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2jBASEMilvusYaacomo
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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