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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Firebird Foundation

Teradata

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

2016

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java 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
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

R packages

Triggers

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

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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