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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	IBM Db2 warehouse formerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison	JSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
			JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.	SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.	Cloud-based data warehousing service	JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 1.37 Rank #160   Overall #74   Relational DBMS
Website	www.gbase.cn	www.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse	jsqldb.org (offline)	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Developer	General Data Technology Co., Ltd.	IBM	Konrad von Backstrom	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2004	2014	2018	1993
Current release	GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c		0.8, December 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C, Java, Python
Server operating systems	Linux	hosted	Linux macOS Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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	no Import/export of XML data possible	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Standard with numerous extensions	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET C API JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API JDBC ODBC OLE DB		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C#	Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python R Ruby	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	PL/SQL, SQL PL	functions in JavaScript	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID		ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes using RocksDB	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	GBase	IBM Db2 warehouse formerly named IBM dashDB	JSqlDb	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
Recent citations in the news		Announcing the deprecation of prior generation Db2 Warehouse plans on AWS 16 October 2023, ibm.com Introducing the next generation of Db2 Warehouse: Our cost-effective, cloud-native data warehouse built for always-on ... 11 July 2023, ibm.com Db2 Warehouse delivers 4x faster query performance than previously, while cutting storage costs by 34x 11 July 2023, ibm.com Data mining in Db2 Warehouse: the basics 23 June 2020, Towards Data Science Top 7 Cloud Data Warehouse Companies 31 May 2023, Datamation provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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