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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. GridDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

griddb.net

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.griddb.net

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Microsoft

Toshiba Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2008

2010

2013

2009

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.1, August 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID at container level

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

users and table-level permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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