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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Lovefield vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Website

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

cloud.google.com/datastore

google.github.io/lovefield

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2014

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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 (GQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Using read-only observers

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

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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