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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cubrid vs. GreptimeDB vs. Lovefield

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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

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

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

greptime.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.greptime.com

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

Developer

Altibase

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Greptime Inc.

Google

Initial release

1999

2008

2022

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Rust

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

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

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

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

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