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System Properties Comparison Apache Ignite vs. Cubrid vs. DuckDB

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Name

Description

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.10
Rank	#82	Overall
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	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#186	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	7.39
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Website

ignite.apache.org

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

duckdb.org

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

duckdb.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Initial release

2015

2008

2018

Current release

2.16.0, December 2023

11.0, January 2021

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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