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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

duckdb.org

www.gbase.cn

greptime.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

duckdb.org/docs

docs.greptime.com

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2008

2018

2004

2022

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.0, June 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

C, Java, Python

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Simple rights management via user accounts

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