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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector 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	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.graphengine.io

www.harperdb.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.harperdb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

HarperDB

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2010

2017

2015

2000

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.1, August 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

.NET

Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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, using LMDB

yes

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 and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

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