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DBMS > Cubrid vs. Firebolt vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Firebolt vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.firebolt.iogeode.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.com
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdocs.firebolt.iogeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationFirebolt Analytics Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Circonus LLC.Kinetica
Initial release20082020200220172012
Current release11.0, January 20211.1, February 2017V0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaC and C++C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablenoAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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