DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Cubrid vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Cubrid vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	17.94
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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Embarcadero

Google

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2008

1984

2014

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

yes

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