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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

db.apache.org/derby

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

1997

1983

host version

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

10.17.1.0, November 2023

12.1, October 2016

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes, each node contains all data

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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