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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#99	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

CCRi and others

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

2009

2017

Current release

11.0, January 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Scala

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Erlang

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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