DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. eXtremeDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. eXtremeDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

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

www.mcobject.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

McObject

LeanXcale

Initial release

2012

2008

2001

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0, January 2021

8.2, 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C++

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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