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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. DolphinDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graph Engine

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.97
Rank	#189	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2008

2018

2023

2015

2010

Current release

11.0, January 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

.NET

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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 query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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