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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Lovefield vs. OushuDB

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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 distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.dolphindb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

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

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Elastic

Google

Oushu

Initial release

2008

2018

2010

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.6, January 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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