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

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 casesAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsMicrosoft 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.)In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.keydb.devdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.MicrosoftVK
Initial release20042017201919922008
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesLuayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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