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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GreptimeDB

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Name

Description

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#336	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/spanner

greptime.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.greptime.com

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2008

2017

2022

Current release

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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)

Simple rights management via user accounts

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