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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. Hypertable vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

postgis.net

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hypertable Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

2008

2009

1994

2005

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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