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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.mcobject.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

McObject

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2008

2001

2012

1994

Current release

11.0, January 2021

8.2, 2021

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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Specific characteristics

eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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