DBMS > Cubrid vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

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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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.h2gis.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

CNRS

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Mireo

Initial release

2008

2013

1992

2015

2020

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

but no files for transaction logging

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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