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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. GraphDB vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#91	Overall
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ontotext.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Social network pages

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Ontotext

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2008

2000

2014

1994

Current release

11.0, January 2021

10.4, October 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

schema-free

yes

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

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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