DBMS > Cubrid vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used open source RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mysql.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.teradata.com

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Teradata

Initial release

2008

2013

2010

1995

1984

Current release

11.0, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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