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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.firebirdsql.org

hbase.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Firebird Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

2015

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

rights management via user accounts

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