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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Fauna vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

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

fauna.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.fauna.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Fauna, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

2019

2017

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.0, August 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

depending on used data model

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 SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

yes

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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