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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Thomas Mueller

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2008

2005

2010

2015

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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