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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS

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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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Firebird Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2008

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2009

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

no

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript 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

C

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

Erlang

no

Triggers

yes

yes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

no

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes, using Riak Security

no

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