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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. OpenTSDB vs. PlanetScale vs. WakandaDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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/LinuxScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2opentsdb.netplanetscale.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPlanetScaleWakanda SAS
Initial release20041983 infohost version201120202012
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c12.1, October 20162.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++JavaGoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
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 infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes

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