DBMS > Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Kinetica vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Kinetica vs. RDFox

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

www.kinetica.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Microsoft

Kinetica

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2008

2010

2012

2017

Current release

11.0, January 2021

7.1, August 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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 and roles on table level

Roles, resources, and access types

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