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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. DuckDB vs. GridGain

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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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.95
Rank	#186	Overall
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Score	7.39
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#151	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#25	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

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

duckdb.org

www.gridgain.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

duckdb.org/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2018

2007

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.0, June 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial, open source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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