DBMS > Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SQLite vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SQLite vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sqlite.org

vitess.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

vitess.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Dwayne Richard Hipp

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2012

2000

2013

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

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

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

ACID at shard level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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