DBMS > Blueflood vs. Cubrid vs. FatDB vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cubrid vs. FatDB vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

blueflood.io

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cubrid.org/manuals

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Rackspace

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

FatCloud

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2013

2008

2012

1994

2021

Current release

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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