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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

google.github.io/lovefield

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Event Store Limited

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2012

2014

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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