DBMS > Cubrid vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Widely used in-process key-value store

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.heavy.ai

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2016

1994

2010

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.10, January 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 and roles; record level security configurable

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

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