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DBMS > GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Netezza

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
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/LinuxData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational 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
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Score1.40
Rank#148  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score126.57
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score6.45
Rank#53  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMIBM
Initial release20041983 infohost version2000
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c12.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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GBaseIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2Netezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM
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