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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. NCache vs. RDF4J

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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.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Alachisoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2008

2017

2005

2004

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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 syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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