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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. searchxml vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Tencent

Initial release

2004

1983

host version

2015

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

12.1, October 2016

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

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

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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