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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Elasticsearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SingleStore vs. TerarkDB

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.elastic.co/­elasticsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.singlestore.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationElasticGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SingleStore Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20082010201220132016
Current release11.0, January 20218.6, January 20238.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infohash partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesno
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CubridElasticsearchFirebase Realtime DatabaseSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTerarkDB
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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