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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Riak KV

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Axibase Corporation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

2008

2010

2009

Current release

15585

11.0, January 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes, using Riak Security

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