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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MonetDB

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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.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2008

2004

2017

2004

Current release

11.0, January 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Active-active shard replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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