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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Linter vs. Lovefield vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

RDBMS for high security requirements

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

linter.ru

google.github.io/lovefield

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

IBM

relex.ru

Google

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

1983

host version

1990

2014

2019

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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