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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
RDF store

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

cubrid.org/manuals

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

informationpartners gmbh

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2008

2015

2018

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

11.0, January 2021

1.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C, C++, Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Role-based access control

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