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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. HarperDB vs. Transbase

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.datomic.com

www.harperdb.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.datomic.com

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Cognitect

HarperDB

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

2012

2017

1987

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.1, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java, Clojure

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

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

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes, using LMDB

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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