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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.89
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#28	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.71
Rank	#93	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Initial release

2008

2000

2017

Current release

11.0, January 2021

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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