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DBMS > GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 casesEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storerocksdb.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMFacebook, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2004201720132012
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.09.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
JavaScript API
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
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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