DBMS > Citus vs. Cubrid vs. GBase vs. RDF4J vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Cubrid vs. GBase vs. RDF4J vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.citusdata.com

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

www.gbase.cn

rdf4j.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

cubrid.org/manuals

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2010

2008

2004

2009

Current release

8.1, December 2018

11.0, January 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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