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DBMS > GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Access

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

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  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 casesPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsMicrosoft 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
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.jaguardb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMDataJaguar, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2004201720151992
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.03.3 July 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes 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
JDBC
ODBC
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesnonoyes 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 partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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