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DBMS > Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Microsoft
Initial release2008201219922014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release11.0, January 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functions
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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