DBMS > Blueflood vs. Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

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

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cubrid.org/manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Rackspace

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2013

2008

2012

2014

1994

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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