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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

hbase.apache.org/book.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2008

2004

2008

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

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, Java, Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

no

yes

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

no

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C#

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

no

Triggers

yes

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

no

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