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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

cubrid.org/manuals

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2008

2022

Current release

11.0, January 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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