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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Graph Engine vs. GridDB vs. mSQL vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.graphengine.io

griddb.net

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.griddb.net

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

Toshiba Corporation

Hughes Technologies

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2010

2013

1994

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.1, August 2022

4.4, October 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

.NET

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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