DBMS > Altibase vs. Cubrid vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. SWC-DB

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

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

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

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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

Developer

Altibase

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Circonus LLC.

Google

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2008

2017

2014

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

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

commercial

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

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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