DBMS > Cubrid vs. GBase vs. Ingres vs. mSQL vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. GBase vs. Ingres vs. mSQL vs. Spark SQL

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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.

Well established RDBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.actian.com/ingres

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Actian Corporation

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2004

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1994

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.2, May 2022

4.4, October 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C, Java, Python

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

MVCC

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.

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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