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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cubrid vs. Graphite vs. Lovefield vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

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

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cubrid.org/manuals

graphite.readthedocs.io

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

Developer

Altibase

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Chris Davis

Google

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2008

2006

2014

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Sockets

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

locking

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

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