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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. GBase vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

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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.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2004

1987

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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