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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.17
Rank	#169	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#313	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#84	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2004

2017

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-active shard replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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