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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. EDB Postgres vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.datomic.com

www.enterprisedb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.datomic.com

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Cognitect

EnterpriseDB

Spotify

Initial release

2008

2012

2005

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.7075, December 2023

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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