DBMS > Blueflood vs. Cubrid vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cubrid vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

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

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cubrid.org/manuals

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/hana

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Rackspace

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

1995

2010

2017

Current release

11.0, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

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

based on RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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