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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Firebird Foundation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2008

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

1991

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

5.10, January 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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