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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery vs. GridDB vs. SQLite vs. SwayDB

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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

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

griddb.net

www.sqlite.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.griddb.net

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Toshiba Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

2010

2013

2000

2018

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.1, August 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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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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