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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. SWC-DB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Alex Kashirin

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2017

2014

2020

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

0.5, April 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript

C++

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

yes

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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