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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Well established RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hbase.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Actian Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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