DBMS > Citus vs. Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.citusdata.com

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2010

2008

2010

2020

Current release

8.1, December 2018

11.0, January 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

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

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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