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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/datastore

maxdb.sap.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

1984

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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