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DBMS > GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Access

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignite.apache.orggithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.immudb.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMApache Software FoundationCodenotaryMicrosoft
Initial release20042017201520201992
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0Apache Ignite 2.61.2.3, April 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C++, Java, .NetGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like syntaxyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationyes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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