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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cubrid vs. GreptimeDB

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Name

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.35
Rank	#154	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#336	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

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

greptime.com

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.greptime.com

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2008

2022

Current release

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

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

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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