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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

geode.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

geode.apache.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Softmotions

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

MonetDB BV

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2008

2012

2002

2004

1995

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.1, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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