DBMS > Cubrid vs. Geode vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Geode vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

geode.apache.org/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

postgis.net/documentation

questdb.io/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2008

2002

1995

2005

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.1, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

C and C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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