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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cubrid vs. GigaSpaces vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Widely used open source RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

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

www.gigaspaces.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Axibase Corporation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Gigaspaces Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

Initial release

2013

2008

2000

1995

2010

Current release

15585

11.0, January 2021

15.5, September 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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