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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.harperdb.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

HarperDB

Embarcadero

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

2017

1984

1987

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.1, August 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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