DBMS > Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. ObjectBox vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. ObjectBox vs. SurrealDB

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series 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	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

objectbox.io

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.objectbox.io

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2008

2010

2017

2022

Current release

11.0, January 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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 query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

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)

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

More information provided by the system vendor

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